RE: use of ps in ipsec shutdown

From: Stephen Smalley <sds_at_tislabs.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:26:55 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Paul Krumviede wrote:

> while this would suppress the warnings, what would happen
> if one wanted to restart the ipsec stuff, perhaps because of
> a config file change, when in enforcing mode? it would seem
> that stopping the service would fail (actually, it would look like
> it worked, but because _realsetup wouldn't think that pluto is
> running, pluto wouldn't be shut down) and i don't know what
> would be the result of the subsequent start.

As long as _realsetup is running in ipsec_t, it should be able to see the pluto daemon and kill it. But I'm wondering if _realsetup should really run in a separate domain (e.g. ipsec_client_t) that can see the ipsec_t domain and communicate with it, but cannot directly access PF_KEY sockets.

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Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
ssmalley@nai.com




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